Kim Jones, a former Allamerican Collegiate tennis player and co -founder of the Independent Council on Women’s Sports (Icons), had a message to President Donald Trump in the midst of criticism that NCAA’s new policy for trans -grinding athletes still has logging holes.
The president signed an executive order that banned biological men from competing in women’s sports. NCAA followed up the next day and turned its policy on Trans -Including in Women’s Sports.
Jones urged Trump to get NCAA to rewrite his policy again.
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President Donald Trump signs an executive order that prevents transient female athletes from competing in women’s or girls’ sporting events, in the eastern space of the White House on Wednesday, February 5, 2025 in Washington, DC (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
“Call NCAA back to the table and ask them to set the policy in the trash, light it on fire and start over,” she said at “Fox & Friends” on Wednesday.
Jones was among the critics who have insisted that this policy is not going far enough or establishing clear enough barriers to protecting women’s athletes in the college rows. The most common criticism has been that the policy allegedly allows trans athletes to bypass the restriction by changing gender on their birth certificate.
In the United States, 44 states allow birth certificates to change to change a person’s birth sex. The only states that do not allow this are Florida, Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Montana. In the meantime, there are 14 states that allow sex on a birth certificate to change without required medical documentation, including California, New York, Massachusetts and Michigan.
NCAA released a statement to Pakinomist Digital that the governing body will not allow trans athletes to compete in the women’s category based on changed birth certificates.
“The policy is aware that there are no exceptions available and athletes assigned male at birth may not compete on a women’s team with changed birth certificates or other forms of ID,” the spokesman said.
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NCAA -Volleyballs are depicted by Division in the volleyball championship held at Walter Pyramid on May 4, 2019 in Long Beach, California. (John W. McDonough/NCAA -Photos via Getty Images)
Jones said NCAA needed to do two things “absolutely mandatory.”
“The first one must decide that membership of a women’s team is solely for female students athletes,” she said. “Secondly, there must be a screening mechanism to make sure no male athletes can cross this barrier.”
She made it clear that Trump’s “No Men in Women’s Sports” was far from solidified.
“It’s not a clear deal,” she added. “The policy that NCAA released has no accountability and supervision from NCAA. It has no clear language that limits women’s team membership to female athletes, and it has no mechanism for screening sex.”
With regard to trans athletes practicing on a women’s team, NCAA considers male practice players as a “staple” of women’s sports.
“Players in male practices have been a staple in college sports for decades, especially in women’s basketball, and the association will continue to explain it in politics,” the spokesman said.
However, the benefits that are expanded to athletes practicing on a women’s team do not include scholarships, a source, well known, tells Pakinomist Digital.
The NCAA logo on the input sign outside the NCAA headquarters on February 28, 2023 in Indianapolis. (Mitchell Layton/Getty Images)
These details are not currently described on the official NCAA policy side as it does not make any specific references to birth certificate or ID changes, or women’s scholarships going to trans athletes.
Whether NCAA makes an official update to tackle this criticism has not yet been determined.
